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| | Bereznyak-Isayev BI rocket jet interceptor - history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Sukhoi / Tupolev I-4 "parasite" fighter mounted on the wing of a TB-1 heavy bomber |
 | | The aircraft was designed by Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak (1912 - 1974) and Alexei Mikhailovich Isayev (1908 - 1971) under the direction of Professor Victor Bolkhovitinov, head of the OKB Bolkhovitinov (aircraft design bureau). |
 | | Alexei Isayev developed a series of jet propulsion systems used by Vostok, Voskhod, Soyuz space vehicles; Luna, Mars, Venera, Zond, Molniya, Polyot, Kosmos interplanetary spaceships; Salyut orbital vehicles, etc. Isayev received Lenin Award in 1958 and two State Awards of the USSR in 1948 and 1968. |
| www.aeronautics.ru /nws001/bi/history.htm (2769 words) |
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